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Honour killing victim Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed ( Punjabi and Urdu : شفیلیہ افتخار احمد ; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage .
The killing of Surjit Athwal was planned in the UK and done in India; Murder of Tulay Goren; Murder of Heshu Yones; So-called honour killings of people with Kurdish ethnic heritage: Pela Atroshi (Iraqi Kurdistan) Fadime Şahindal (Sweden) Hatun Sürücü (Germany) So-called honour killings of other people with Iraqi national heritage:
Heshu's case was the first in the United Kingdom to be legally recognised and prosecuted as an honour killing; [4] [5] it led to the creation of a specialist task force [6] [7] in honour-based violence and, subsequently, to the reviewing of more than 100 previous cases of murder and suicide for any indication that "honour" was a factor. [8] [9]
Finlay MacDonald, 41, repeatedly stabbed his wife Rowena at their home on the island of Skye before driving 17 minutes to another village, where he shot and killed his brother-in-law John MacKinnon.
Pages in category "Honour killing in the United Kingdom" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Abubakar Buksh, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, led the fresh investigation which alleged, in conclusion, that Samia's death was a “premeditated and cold-blooded honour killing”. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] He stated: "We have completed our investigation and concluded that her ex-husband Muhammad Shakeel and father Muhammad Shahid were involved ...
Banaz: A Love Story is a 2012 documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah Khan. [1] The film chronicles the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British-Iraqi woman of Kurdish origin killed in 2006 in South London on the orders of her family in what is euphemistically called honour killing. [2]
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